City native promoted to Army Colonel
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Submitted Photos
Col. Perry J. Seawright
(second, right) poses
with family and friends
after his swearing.
Left: Col. Perry J.
Seawrigh is given the
oath by Maj. Gen.
Thomas C. Seamonds.
Lt. Col. Perry J.
Seawright was surround
ed by family and friends
as he was promoted to
colonel on Friday, Aug. 8
at the Pentagon. The cer
emony was hosted by
Maj. Gen. Thomas C.
Seamonds, director of
Military Personnel
Management.
Col. Seawright, the
son of Perry and Barbara
Parks Seawright. is a
native of Winston-Salem.
His wife. Sharon Walker
Seawright, is a represen
tative for the Department
of Homeland Security.
The couple resides in
Fayetteville, Ga.
He attended
Chinquapin Grove
Missionary Baptist
Church in Davie County,
and he says many of his
successes can be attrib
uted to the teachings he
received from his church
family. He attended
William R. , Davie
(County) Elementary
School, Our Lady of
Mercy and St. Benedict
in Winston-Salem and
Denbige High School in
Newport News, Va., from
which he graduated.
He earned a degree in
history from Norfolk
State University, where
he was inducted into the
Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, the Honor
Society of Who's Who in
America and commis
sioned a Distinguished
Military Aviation
Graduate of 1989.
Colonel Seawright
holds a MS degree in
management from
Webster University in St.
Louis and a MS degree in
strategy from the Army
War College in Carlisle,
Penn. His military edu
cation includes the
Aviation Officer Basic
Course, the Combined
Logistics Officers'
Advanced Course, the
Combined Arms Service
Staff School and the
Command and General
Staff College.
His assignments have
included Platoon Leader
and Executive Officer of
60th Transportation
Company, 69 Trans
Battalion, Camp
Humphries, Korea;
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Executive Officer C
1/222 Aviation Regiment,
Ft. Eustis, Va.; Company
Commander Supply and
Transport Company, 1st
Support Battalion, Multi
National Force and
Observer, Sinai, Egypt;
Chief Transportation
Tasking 501st Corps
Support Group, Ft.
Bragg; Company
Commander Newark
Recruiting Company,
'New York City;
Operations Officer,
CONUS Replacement
Center, Ft. Benning;
Deputy Defense
Coordinating Officer
(FEMA Region IV),
Fifth Army, Atlanta; and
Special Operations
Program Manager, NATO
Special Operations com
mand, Afghanistan. Col.
Seawright is currently
assigned to the
Directorate of Personnel
Management
Headquarters Department
of the Army.
Colonel Seawright's
awards and decorations
include the Bronze
Medal, the Meritorious
Service Medal (4th
Award), the Joint Service
Commendation Medal
(2nd award), the Army
Commendation Medal
(4th award), the Joint
Service Achievement
Medal (2nd award), the
Parachutist Badge, the
Air Assault Badge and
the Basic Recruiter
Identification Badge.
After receiving his
promotion, he presented
his wife and mother with
a fresh bouquet of spring
flowers and thanked his
family.
"Your parents want
you to do better than they
did. My mother would
say, 'Perry, a day will
come when you will have
to make a way out of no
way,' and that day has
come several times, and I
thank the Lord that he
brought me through those
'no ways,'" he said. "My
dad emphasized that I
should never start a job
that I am not able to com
plete, that 'whatever you
do, be sure you do it the
very best that you can.'
These remarks have
weighed heavily on what
I do, but I have always
been a soldier."
Among those who
attended the Promotion
ceremony were his broth
er and sister-in-law, Mark
and Crystal Seawright
and three of their four
children, Seth, Areia and
Gideon, of Charlotte;
Luther Jones, his godfa
ther, of Winston-Salem;
and Mary Estacion, a
longtime friend and
reporter for The Pentagon
Channel, WJLA-TV.
Submitted Photo
Kaypri with her mom, Dorothy Hampton Marcus.
Daughter to promote
mom's book
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Author Kaypri is
attending the Bookmarks
Festival of Books this
weekend and taking part
in a series of other local
activities.
She is touting a book
by her mother, Dorothy
Hampton Marcus. "I
Didn't Know What 1
Didn't Know: A Southern
White Woman's Story
About Race" tells of how
Marcus, a white Winston
Salem native, had a full
career working behind
the-scenes in the Civil
Rights Movement.
In the 1950s, Marcus
took part in interracial
dialogues with Shaw
University students when
she was in undergrad at
Meredith College. Before
she could complete her
book, she was diagnosed
with dementia. Her
daughter finished and
edited a working draft for
her mother's 80th birth
day in 2012, and inde
pendently released a final
version in the spring of
2014.
Tomorrow (Friday,
Sept. 5), Kaypri, an
actress and teaching
artist, will take part in a
fundraiser for the Malloy
Jordan Library that will
be held at the Central
Library, 660 W 5th St., at
2 p.m. She will appear
throughout the day -
from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- during Bookmarks,
which will take place in
and around the Milton
Rhodes Center for the
Arts, 251 N. Spruce St.,
on Saturday, Sept. 6.
Kaypri will be inter
viewed by Darlene
Vincent of 90.5 FM at 8
a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 7.
Also on Sunday, she will
appear at Green Street
Methodist Church, 639 S.
Green St.. at 1:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, Sept.
11 at 10 a.m., she will
give a presentation at the
Malloy Jordan Library
110 E 7th St.
To learn more about
the book, go to
www.dorothystory.com.
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